Ben Taylor
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Ben Taylor was an early 20th-century American baseball figure known for his role in the Negro leagues, including leadership and organizational contributions that helped establish prominent Black baseball teams.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Taylor canonical | 6 |
| Jim Taylor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5193160 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Ben Taylor Context triple: [Indianapolis ABCs, foundedBy, Ben Taylor]
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A.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is known as the former long-term partner of acclaimed British actor Sir Ian McKellen.
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B.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is an American filmmaker best known for co-directing the hyper-kinetic action films "Crank" and "Crank: High Voltage."
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C.
Don Taylor
Don Taylor was an American actor and later film and television director known for roles in classic films such as "Stalag 17" and for directing movies like "Escape from the Planet of the Apes."
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D.
David Taylor
David Taylor is a songwriter credited as one of the writers of Beyoncé’s hit empowerment anthem “Run the World (Girls).”
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E.
Kent Taylor
Kent Taylor was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in Westerns and crime dramas during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Ben Taylor Target entity description: Ben Taylor was an early 20th-century American baseball figure known for his role in the Negro leagues, including leadership and organizational contributions that helped establish prominent Black baseball teams.
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A.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is known as the former long-term partner of acclaimed British actor Sir Ian McKellen.
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B.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is an American filmmaker best known for co-directing the hyper-kinetic action films "Crank" and "Crank: High Voltage."
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C.
Don Taylor
Don Taylor was an American actor and later film and television director known for roles in classic films such as "Stalag 17" and for directing movies like "Escape from the Planet of the Apes."
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D.
David Taylor
David Taylor is a songwriter credited as one of the writers of Beyoncé’s hit empowerment anthem “Run the World (Girls).”
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E.
Kent Taylor
Kent Taylor was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in Westerns and crime dramas during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Negro league baseball player
ⓘ
baseball manager ⓘ baseball player ⓘ first baseman ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Negro National League era
ⓘ
linked to:
Negro National League
pre–Negro National League era ⓘ |
| battingHand | left ⓘ |
| contributedTo | development of prominent Black baseball teams ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1888-07-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1953-01-24 ⓘ |
| eraOfActivity | early 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
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linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Taylor ⓘ |
| givenName | Benjamin ⓘ |
| hallOfFame |
National Baseball Hall of Fame
ⓘ
linked to:
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
|
| inductedIntoHallOfFame | 2006 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
consistent hitting and defensive skill at first base
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helping organize and manage Negro league clubs ⓘ |
| league |
Negro leagues
ⓘ
linked to:
Negro Leagues
|
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Bacharach Giants
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Baltimore Black Sox ⓘ Brooklyn Royal Giants ⓘ Chicago American Giants ⓘ Indianapolis ABCs ⓘ St. Louis Giants ⓘ Washington Potomacs ⓘ |
| name | Ben Taylor ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in Negro league team organization
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play in Negro league baseball ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball manager
ⓘ
baseball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Anderson, South Carolina, United States
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linked to:
Anderson, South Carolina
|
| placeOfDeath | Baltimore, Maryland, United States ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | first baseman ⓘ |
| relative | Taylor baseball family ⓘ |
| residence |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
ⓘ
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States ⓘ |
| role | player-manager for Indianapolis ABCs ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
C. I. Taylor
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Candy Jim Taylor ⓘ Steel Arm Johnny Taylor ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| throwingHand | left ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ben Taylor Description of subject: Ben Taylor was an early 20th-century American baseball figure known for his role in the Negro leagues, including leadership and organizational contributions that helped establish prominent Black baseball teams.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ben Taylor